# Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 3)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 29, 2026, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157 "2026-01-29T18:21:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 51
### Author:  [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2026, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1001 "2026-04-06T20:36:51Z")
My supermarket has three things, which i call a shopping basket, a small shopping cart, and a large shopping cart. The basket is handheld.
I’ve seen people on chat sites refer to it as a buggy, but I’ve never heard anyone say that. North East
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### Author:  [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2026, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1002 "2026-04-06T20:55:48Z")
This was recently posted in r/MapPorn. _Shopping cart_ is very popular, but there are pockets of resistance.
[What Americans call Shopping Carts : r/MapPorn](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1n1xizj/what_americans_call_shopping_carts/)
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### Author:  [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2026, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1003 "2026-04-06T21:35:26Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#):
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> My supermarket has three things, which i call a shopping basket, a small shopping cart, and a large shopping cart. The basket is handheld.
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> I’ve seen people on chat sites refer to it as a buggy, but I’ve never heard anyone say that. North East.
I grew up in western PA and my parents called them buggies. I call them shopping carts.
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### Author:  [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2026, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1004 "2026-04-06T22:18:00Z")
Grocery cart is less popular, but shows up all over the US, too.
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2026, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1005 "2026-04-06T23:25:54Z")
Is it still a grocery cart if it’s in some other kind of store than a grocery store?
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### Author:  [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2026, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1006 "2026-04-06T23:26:51Z")
I just say “cart.” Both “grocery cart” and “shopping cart” sound valid as expansions. While I’m aware of other sorts of carts, wains, and drays, the only one in my active vocabulary is the cart at the grocery store.
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### Author:  [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2026, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1007 "2026-04-07T00:25:41Z")
Potentially controversial, but I actually think that “haven’t heard of this thing or don’t care about it” options make the results worse for me than if those who selected that option just didn’t vote.
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### Author:  [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2026, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1008 "2026-04-07T00:40:15Z")
But it makes the poll annoying for those people. Because every time they open the thread, they see a poll they haven’t answered, and think, oh, i need to look at this poll. And it’s the same poll they didn’t have an opinion on last time. Over and over, until it scrolls off the top of the page.
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### Author:  [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2026, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1009 "2026-04-07T01:05:29Z")
Solutions to the [poll on movie character trios](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/6682):
- Boggis, Bunce, and Bean: _Fantastic Mr. Fox_
- Harry, Ron, and Hermione: _Harry Potter_
- Jeffrey, Walter, and Donny: _The Big Lebowski_
- Lucky, Dusty, and Ned: _Three Amigos_
- Mac, Zeebo, and Wiploc: _Earth Girls are Easy_
- Pete, Delmar, and Ulysses: _O Brother, Where Art Thou?_
- Peter, Samir, and Michael: _Office Space_
- Rose, Blanche, and Violette: _The Triplets of Belleville_
- Sid, Manny, and Diego: _Ice Age_
- Vizzini, Fezzik, and Inigo: _The Princess Bride_
- Zod, Ursa, and Non: _Superman II_
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2026, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1010 "2026-04-07T01:54:11Z")
I lived in a region without fireflies when I was growing up, so really don’t have a frame of reference. There are fireflies where I live now, though.
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### Author:  [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2026, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1011 "2026-04-07T02:05:44Z")
I, also, had no fireflies as a kid. And not many where i live now. But I’ve been to places that have lots
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2026, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1012 "2026-04-07T02:21:48Z")
**Fire** _Beetle_, which is what they actually are–my inner biologist gets a bit…_blinky_…when people indicate they don’t know what order they belong to.
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### Author:  [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2026, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1013 "2026-04-07T02:35:24Z")
We had a ton of lightning bugs growing up in Texas, now we just get a few fireflies every summer in New England.
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### Author:  [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2026, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1014 "2026-04-07T02:52:32Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#):
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> Because every time they open the thread, they see a poll they haven’t answered, and think, oh, i need to look at this poll. And it’s the same poll they didn’t have an opinion on last time. Over and over, until it scrolls off the top of the page.
Why re-open it if there isn’t an indicator showing that a new post has been added?
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### Author:  [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2026, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1015 "2026-04-07T03:17:16Z")
In my early youth (1-5) I remember seeing a lot of fireflies near where I lived in western MASS. Moving to southern NM (higher altitude, much hotter, much drier) I barely saw any. And moving to Colorado, very few on the ground as well (even higher, pretty extreme variations in temperatures, and also very dry).
The times I’ve visited friends in family in consistently warm and humid areas I’ve seen them - especially the time I went to my brother’s wedding in Florida almost 20 years ago.
Not enough information to make an apples-to-apples comparison given the difference in climates, so voted other.
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2026, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1016 "2026-04-07T03:20:53Z")
I lived in suburban Chicago until age 10; I remember going out on summer evenings to catch fireflies, and there were always lots of them.
When we moved 200 miles north, to Green Bay, in 1975, there were essentially no fireflies there; my understanding is that the winters were too cold and too long for them to thrive.
I moved back to the Chicago area in 1989, and live only a few miles from where I lived as a kid; while we have _some_ fireflies now, it seems like there are significantly fewer than there were decades ago.
(Meanwhile, there are now fireflies up in Green Bay.)
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2026, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1017 "2026-04-07T03:24:00Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#):
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> **Fire** _Beetle_, which is what they actually are…
But are they? Since their light requires neither fuel nor oxidizer, they’re not a fire anything.
You started it.
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### Author:  [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2026, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1018 "2026-04-07T03:46:48Z")
I only open the thread when there are new posts. But there are often multiple new posts. I don’t keep track of which ones are new. I see a bunch of polls. 🤷♀️
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### Author:  [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2026, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1019 "2026-04-07T03:50:26Z")
Have you listened to the Ologies podcast about lightning bugs? I learned a lot about our little glowy friends from that episode.
Yes, I grew up calling them lightning bugs here in Western Pennsylvania. And I remember their light being more yellow when I was a kid in the 70s. The ones I see these days are more green. Must be a different species.
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### Author:  [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2026, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1020 "2026-04-07T07:12:28Z")
There will always be polls that a specific poster isn’t interested in. Should the trivia based ones about identifying fictional characters also have an “I don’t care about this crap” option too?
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